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- What do rap shows, barbershop banter and Sunday services have in common? As Christopher Emdin says, they all hold the secret magic to enthrall and teach at the same time - and it's a skill we often don't teach to educators. The science advocate (and cofounder of Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. with the GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan) offers a vision to make the classrooms come alive.
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As a teacher myself I know it is difficult to create and hold that magic, but when it happens, when you truly engage and hold that classes attention, there is no better feeling in the world. I LIVE FOR THOSE MAGIC MOMENTS!
Correct 💯
Many people commenting here have missed the point. Chris is not saying that magic is ALL you need to teach, he is saying that teacher education is focusing exclusively on theory and standards and not preparing teachers with tangible skills they can use to engage students in the classroom. As a former high school teacher who is now a teacher educator and researcher, I know that he is absolutely correct. I agree that what is most engaging and conducive to learning will not be just the teacher talking. Research shows that the students should be doing most of the talking. However, research by Pekrun et al. also shows that teachers' enthusiasm is strongly correlated to student enjoyment and achievement. Unfortunately this research also shows that students are bored most of the time in school. And who could blame them? School is boring! We need to train teachers to be responsive to students' thinking and lived experiences and foster their curiosity and creativity if we hope for student engagement (which leads to achievement).
Nuff said!
Wendy Johnson -Thanks for your comment. Do you have the name of the research article by Pekrun et al as I couldn’t seem to find it.
You dont teach he does not teach.
Magic is birthed from passion and love of content. If you say you can't sustain that magic for multiple lessons in a day... then ask yourself the question "Do I love what I'm teaching?" It's more to it than to just love to teach... You have to first love WHAT you are teaching... Without that, then you will grow tired every day from 1st to 6th to 9th period... James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship. George Washington Carver says all learning is understanding relationships. This is the essence of what Mr. Emdin is speaking about... Creating an opportunity to build a relationship of interest, trust, and for lack of a better term admiration for the teacher, held by the student.
Yessss! I have been a teacher educator for over 16 years and we definitely need to reframe teacher education. What a wonderful idea way to describe it--something that I have always purposed to do in my elementary and college classrooms.
This guy is amazing. Not only because the subject is good, but also because he did, all the time, exactly what he was describing.
"Content and theories but without the magic of teaching and learning is nothing!" Cheers to that! Amen!
Nothing kills an interesting subject faster than a boring teacher.
100% agreed
glad you shared your opinion, seems like quite a few ppl share it!
One of my favourite teachers in school had been there for 38 years and never got a teaching qualification. He had so much experience, knowledge of his subject and a sense of humour. Most other teachers didn’t have that and I had to work a lot harder to do well in their subjects.
Building a narrative is one of most complex and nuanced thing that a human being can do. My own experience started through building compelling and engaging sessions of Dungeons & Dragons for my high school gaming group. Between that experience and my ongoing work as a player and researcher of gaming environments, I hope to be able to encourage and inspire others to follow their passions, whatever they may be.
Standards are like accounting documents. They are a moment in time which have no ability to grade retention or application. At some point schools will figure out that the journey of education, not the test score, is the most important element to gain from education. Being given an opportunity to solve a REAL problem is more valuable than any meaningless exercise. If you want kids to stay and invest in your community, show them the rough spots. I guarantee you those that take the work to smooth them will be forever changed and connected to your locality.
That's it, we need to send all teachers to the hood, because that's where they will learn how to teach.
None of that will help. What makes a good teacher is confidence and reading your students. You need to know how much your students understand and you need to know where they don't understand things. Missing any of these things will make you a bad teacher.
What do preachers and rappers have in common? Confidence. All of my best teachers had confidence and knew where students struggled.
The strength I plan on bringing to the classroom is aligning students' interests with the content. I have already made efforts in doing so. For example, when presenting examples of thesis statements, I showed examples that included arguments about fortnite, hip hop, basketball, and school cafeteria food. Students initially may not have been interested in learning about thesis statements, or constructing their own. When you can find ways to align the material you are teaching to the students' interests, you are instantly increasing their attentiveness.
I listen to these talks to get their cadence as well. I'd love to up my vocal game for my kids. It doesn't have to be extravagant, but little things help.
While I certainly agree with all what he said, I am wondering what can be the exact practical plan that we can implement in order to teach this magic? Yes, having teachers going barber shops or rap concerts, but practically speaking, how can we truly implement that?
I had a teacher who did cartwheels down the hall to demonstrate how a hydra walks. We adored him, and hung on his words. I developed my own style by watching and listening to and wanting to make a difference like him.
Life is a stage--literally in a classroom:)
Students have to be entertained to feel relaxed enough to readily absorb and mentally manipulate knowledge.
Hello Christopher Emdin, Eugene here. Yes I have worshiped in a "black church". I spoke in such a church. I have been a student under many teachers all of my life. (75years) I have learned that body language naturally follows what is in one's heart. Good actors learn that to look genuine they must first feel genuine in their heart. Important facts are important for a reason. Teachers and students can and will become excited if they know and appreciate those reasons.
He missed the main reason a lot of children are disengaged while at school, because they are forced to be there.
Barber shops, rap concerts, church, people choose to go their, it's their interest that drives there attention, the magic that people in those places create will liven it up and encourage them to return.
I have seen dozens of teachers with this magic, maybe not over flowing with it but they have it, they have engaging lessons. This magic can't be taught in a sense, I think it comes from experience. In the UK doing a teaching course you HAVE to have classroom experience on your course, so you learn these skills and see them action.
I find that society (in some countries) looks down on teachers and education, this feeds down to the children who are forced to go to place seen as "bad".
Then there is government's intervention... but that's a different story.
And at the end we arrive to the conclusion that Rousseau was right?
Sorry, but...what on earth are you talking about?
Children don't "choose" to go to church. Most children aren't presented with a "hey, we're going to church, do you want to go with us" option. Their parents force them to go, just as much as they force them to get up and go to school.
And in MOST devoutly religious families, choosing not to go to church, if a child at some point manages to shrug off the...indoctrination...results in serious social shunning.
Haha that's exactly what he highlighted. The biggest problem is children are forced to go to the school because teachers aren't able to create magic. A few teachers do, and children don't have to be forced to attend their classes.
@@drackar And those children who are "forced" to go to church typically leave the church when they get older and while they are there they are mostly not engaged.
@@drackar i agree with that statement until a certain age i think you should have to go to school till you finish middle school then you should have a option to continue or not
because by then you know what kinda strengths and weaknesses you have
As an aspiring teacher, thank you for this. Would love more on it.
A system of memorisation and one of non critical thinking is the source of the poor quality of education.
Education with a goal not in grades but in learning!
Fun and learning are linked.
Watch Ken Robinsons lectures about education.
Im really fed up watching ppl trying to make a presentation rather than a solid argument..
so do the preachers do that 4-5 times a day? rappers don't perform for 4-5 hours a show every day. The energy level they are creating may be good for those environments, were they want people to have fun and spend money either there or later or come back to the next show. A teacher needs students to want to come back for the next "show", but is it on the teacher to do that entirely? musicians have managers who delegate a lot of work to other people in a team behind the scenes. Just like a preacher will have other people. As a teacher we get a teaching assistant if we have a specific need with SEN students and they essentially are there to make sure those students aren't struggling. Teachers get no help to make the students want to come back to the next lesson. We just get told thats what we have to be doing and are expected to be masters at it.
i understand the idea that energy is contagious, but do students thinking a teacher is the best actually make it so? do they learn the most in those lessons or do they think the lessons are best for reasons other than how much or how effectively they learnt something?
The situations you gave are hollow in terms of learning, they aren't difficult. No one goes to a rap concert and says "i don't understand ". because they just have to listen and be entertained. Learning requires participation that is notably absent except for "can i get an ahmen". Not exactly comparable to "can i get the answer to question 10?"
if teachers need to have such high energy levels then there needs to be more help available (like in finland where classes have two teachers) or less none-teaching related jobs for them to do.
Amen!
Graeme Evans For what its worth...I don't think thats the point...he's not comparing the jobs they do, but saying that how they deliver their message has certain components...content and context aside...that could be supplemental bonus material we can easily incorporate into our lessons...not every one will be an award winning presentation, but if you can incorporate some of these tools like use of hands...voice control etc. you may engage more students and then see those mini victories when you helped a bad kid be good so he knows what that feels like and seeks out that feeling outside the classroom. And at what cost...being thoughtful about how we speak in front of our students and find some tools that work for you and your personality, ability etc. Its Presentation Literacy and I know I can only do what works for me and just keep trying new simple things that might just be the difference in a great school year and one I just survive. Fake it til you make it, be vulnerable and your kids will follow suit! The beauty in Education is that each teacher is different and models what society is like, but we all can try and be our best selves, but also know our audience...and try to strive for wha Mark Twain was describing in his statement on the power of good education.
I'm hoping to do some grad work and want this to be my inquiry...How to teach teachers magic or better yet help them to understand how attainable it is. I don't teach in an urban environment...quite the opposite, but this video definitely offers a message for me in the fact that I could do a better job engaging my kids instead of just worrying about standards and intiatives...I can do this magic despite all of that ever present politcal BS that will always be in education. It gives me hope...
Work to change the situation but take responsibility for your energy and your classroom. The problems you’re describing are real, don’t get me wrong. But you’re playing strongly into the victim mentality.
If I’m talking to a student, I’ll tell them that straight A’s are earned not because all of the teachers are good but because the student gets it done regardless.
If I’m talking to a teacher, I tell them it’s their job to engage the students and keep their attention.
Point being take extreme ownership and stop complaining.
I'm not sure if energy is always the right word to use. I'm an introvert and a middle school teacher. My energy is sucked away from me VERY quickly.
But my passion, I let that shine through.
I find activites that may be engaging, but effective. Most I create myself because the internet does not always have what I need and settling for something else is lazy. But it takes time. Having an extra set of hands would be amazing!!! I don't get a teacher assistant. I get an EC teacher, which is only there for one class, and often wants to do as little as possible.
Honestly, just be you. Be who you are and let your love and passion for what you teach shine through.
Have a sense of humor!
Show compassion.
And when your energy is lacking, be real with them. They are kids... they know, especially older ones, what it is like to have a day where you are just dragging a little.
If they like you and trust you, they will almost step in and help wherever they can.
They love to write on the board, hand stuff out, collect papers, even straighten up the room.
Build a rapport and a relationship and those days where your energy level has you feeling like a SIMS character who is stomping and ready to fall over because they are drained... the kids will help. And the lesson may be better than if your energy level was skyrocketing
As a student of secondary school teaching, I couldn't agree more. University teacher Education is exactly as he describes it.
this is really inspiring, as a teacher college student, I approved this :D
this guy is awesome! i saw him speak at the american studies association annual meeting in november and he really opened my eyes to hip hop education and a unique approach that really works for engaging students
I completely agree Christopher..."Storytelling is so important"...
WOW! This is a great lecture, Chris! Thanks for it. You've reawaken my teacher's soul to think more deeply.
An amazing message!! But I have NEVER seen a head shine like that 2:42
He's an angel. That's the light of God.
Wow, powerful. Why deviate from students' reality? When we have the answer in things they already know and love? Great speaker, most importantly, great message.
Maybe students can benefit from being put into contact with a reality that they do not know and do not understand as much as teachers supposedly should.
still reaching out to our students and you Dr. Emdin
What is the "magic" that you are going to bring to your classroom?
- I’m going to try and use my humor to bring the classroom culture to life.
What strength do you plan on bringing to your classroom? Share it with the group.
- My sense of humor has always been a strength and I have been trying to bring that to the classroom - engaging with the kids as best as I can but it’s a work in progress.
Reform of the system is necessary more importantly
There are over 3.3 million teachers in the public school system USA. It would be great if they all had the charisma and the confidence of the speaker and had an audience as attentive as this, or of a church congregation but 'oftentimes' I suspect they do not have either the charisma or the audience. But we should still try.
one of the best TedTalks ever...
Everytime I think about this words, specific memories come to my mind: the time I threw my shoes away while reading a book in class and my students couldn't believe it, the look on my kid's faces when the lava came out of the volcano, the amezement whenever I tried to stand on my hands.
Do we need to create a circus for them every day? I wonder from time to time.
Do we need to consider creating a circus for every learning experience we want to teach? Absolutly
Should we keep the same practices throughout the years, over and over, and never ask ourselves why it doesn't work with every kid? That's like an educational crime.
I find the "magic" argument not thoroughly thought through. People usually create this magic when they are passionate or, at the least, enthusiastic about something. Also, while an audience member can be mesmerised by a passionate/ magic speech, they might not be moved by the content of that speech.
In other words, a kid may enjoy listening/ engage with his/her biology teacher explaining today's class, but not necessarily understand it or even feel intimidated by the complex concepts and terminology.
I understand what Christopher is trying to put across here and fair enough, but in my opinion, there is so much more in successful teaching and learning.
The content comes later. Personality is first. The audience finds someone nice. Then they want to know more about what that person finds so attractive, so enlightening, so fascinating. The audience becomes interested first in the person, later in the subject, and then goes for information on it. All great preachers/priests, teachers and politicians work in this way. There is no other way to people's intellect more efficient than the way through their hearts.
I say, amen. When teaching in front of a class, you're a public speaker. There are teachable techniques that engage audiences, and then there are the snore producers. The black church preachers have raised public speaking to a powerful art form. Count how many times MLK Jr. repeats the simple, four-word phrase, "I have a dream," and you will learn a public speaking lesson about the power of repetition with pauses. This is not about show biz. It's about keeping students awake long enough to hear what you say, and convincing them that what you say is important.
Constance Emerson Crooker
What a wonderful speech it is and nice also amazing ideas for magic in the classroom is given by him keep it up 😊
*Teaching Magic*
Excellent concepts in the video. And you can tell who the crappy teachers are in the comments that don't get it especially with long winded boring responses.
#Humanity needs an #education #revolution. WHEN this happens, the #internet will play a huge part.
Short and sweet. Love it!
Good talk and valid points.
I’m here for the pentecostal pedagogy!! I totally agree!!
Yes!!!! To everything you said!
Very good presentation of the very things you mentioned in the video.
I GOT THAT MAGIC!!!! GREAT PRESENTATION!!!!
I agree with other stuff, but the part about barber shops doesn't make sense to me. How do barbershops engage people?
***** Well that'd be it, I live in Finland and in our barber shops people barely smile :D
Valid points well delivered!
I was thinking that two teachers that interact with each other well teaching a class would allow students to really get involved with a class and would bring it in to a group learning session over all the pressure put on one person. Which isn't really true in reality most things are done in a team. Rather than one person doing it all. Given their is times when people need to do things alone, but generally most of the time people work in groups.
It's not teachers fault . Teachers have to follow the exact programs .
Love this!
The message of the video is great, however regarding the ''magic'' i think its a combination of interest in the subject/work and the teacher's ability to make things interesting to the recipient. The students interest has to come first and it must be nurtured as soon as it is discovered with teachers who have the ''magic''
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This video is amazing! It got me going and now I can go study some chem! Lets Go! :)
It’s about love enthusiasm and good storytelling. Teachers rule the future. How important is that?
Would it be rude to email my professors and past teachers this video?
but do note that each time he says "rap concert", rap can be replaced with any sensible genre of music.
SangoProductions21 what genre is not a sensible genre of music?
Yes.
It would be pointless. The man is a fool. If you want to do well at college, you need to work harder, not to expect a three ring circus every time you enter a classroom.
Proud teacher
You Go Boy!!!!
This relates to me alot
Love this guy!
I've got the magic in me, every time I touch that track it turns into gold. Lol
Wannabe writers, I recommend you pay attention, because what this man is talking about is not only usable in public speaches! * takes notes *
慷慨激昂!!
Christopher Emdin asserts the need of making boring classroom teaching into engaging learning session based on the methods of rap musicians, barber shop workers and black church priests. Good Idea.
Why not a Punch and Judy Show, fireworks, and a brace of unicyclists as well? You know you can never have enough circus acts and music hall turns in a maths lesson.
ha...HA...HA...
It doesn’t seem realistic to be as engaging as a black preacher all day every day. The amazing sermon would be a minimum of 5 times a day, 5 days a week. Teachers are definitely trying to be engaging, but at some point people who are not teachers need to understand how much stress teachers are under. If these ideas could really be put into the classroom, then each classroom would need 2 teachers(or more) so that the teachers could take turns “performing” and “entertaining” while the other teacher rejuvenates, plans the next “sermon” and gets some grading and parent phone calls and PD off their plate.
Emdin encourages me to look more closely at the 'black church', not for the religious content but for the charismatic model of teaching.
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Moral of the story for the ones "too quick to judge" what the presenter is saying. Be more engaging in the classroom.
Hehe, I don't even listen to one of my math professors. If she has some magic, she made it a mission to try to keep it hidden XP Some other professors are amazing, though ^.^
That's a shame I feel sorry for you that you dont like learning
insightful
I just wanted to take some time to share something from FB. A man I knew in passing contracted not benign cancer, but an aggressive form, and it was eating at his spine. He is was about ready to die, too. He could not walk, over 100 people where praying for him, and now he is making a good recovery. As a theologian myself, and a servant of God's word I have not been a man of faith, but a man of intelligence. Even so, don't ask me to explain what happened, just go search Richard Scholes, you will see a fat man with a beard. Above all, I just want to say thank you to God, for making a believer out of me.
I loved this
Teach teachers to be moral leaders, then the 'magic' will naturally appear.
inspiring
He is sharing the secret to being culturally responsive to black and brown students.
Great !
Great !!
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this guy's good
Yeah, can someone tell this to my Spanish teacher. Thanks, k bye.
Yes.!!!
Awesome
A great ted talk but stidents all have different ways of learning for example some student learn best from writing down note others doing puzzles or problem solving etc. what im trying to say the lecture/talking method might not work for everyone.
I just feel we need to update the education system
When did it become necessary that teachers had to become entertainers? To think you, as a teacher, can compete with the internet for a student's attention by being 'entertaining' is admitting to the student that he/she is incapable of taking responsibility for his/her own learning and future.
Teachers Creating Magic?
Preachers capture the imagination of those who believe in that thing they were told exist, even though they cannot see, hear, or feel, it.
But because their parents, grand parents, and other senior members of their society believe in it too. So they go along with the tradition.
Learning in school and college is not based on FAITH, but on personal application, preparation, and resolve to succeed.
I was whipped several times for not doing homework, or not getting my Algebra lessons and answers correct when asked by my teachers. But most of the time I did not have the text books, because my mother couldn't afford to buy them for me.
And some of my teachers did not allow me to look into another child's book during classes. Some even told me that their parents are not rich, but they managed to provide books for their children.
And that was that. I manage the best way I could until I couldn't manage any longer, and left Primary school at 16 years of age to seek employment.
Derryck S. Griffith.
These ted talks are getting shorter and shorter, does anyone know why they've reduced their length so much?
Becauses peoples attention spans are getting shorter and shorter?!
AMEN!
I love you man
right now...you're feeling helpless...intelligent people can create magic, the others can only try
Count up all the times you said "Right now..." and divide it by 4 or 5.
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Skewed perspective marred by the myth of the bon sauvage, but presented effectively.
🔥🔥🔥
"Absence of the Magic".
I instantly thought about Vsauce
Fuck pedagogy. I just went through went through a Fac. of Ed. and experienced the same thing. Teaching is more about intuition, commitment, creativity, and common sense than all of that BS.
Is something wrong with me?? I lost interest in the video within the first 2 minutes. Was he demonstrating 'how not to engage students'. I definitely didn't see any "MAGIC"
Ask any student and they tell you that what this guy says should be absolutely obvious. Saying that telling students to shut up and listen is what should be done makes me so incredibly sad. And every day we see that it doesn't work at all. Everybody wants to learn, but the education system manages to take that curiosity away from most students in less than a couple of years of school.
from what i've experienced students tend to act out if they don't understand something new. Obviously not all students. But the ones that don't know how to deal with the situation of feeling stuck start to act out from frustration, disrupting the class. The class may very well be boring but all humans are fully capable of learning in a "boring" situation, some would just rather pass blame claiming the lesson isn't interesting enough and waste other peoples time by being difficult.
Personally i think students should be able to access explanations via video whenever they need to that allow them to take part in engaging activities in class, and if they don't want to be there then they shouldn't be there.
But right now, in the UK if a student s down to be in a class then they have to be there until their behavior is so disruptive they have to be removed. That teaches them that if they don't want to be in a class, for whatever reason then all they have to do is push the right buttons, waste peoples time and they get sent out.
Not everybody wants to learn everything, but forcing people to learn things they don't want to learn is a flawed idea. whether or not other people think they need to learn it, some students don't care.
I definitely agree with what you say. It's not possible to get everybody to show an interest in every single topic. But showing them what it really means to learn and understand this world can give many people the motivation they need to learn things that can be boring too. Doing that is incredibly hard, but right now the education system completely fails to accomplish that. Every child is curious, wants to learn how things work. I can understand that people don't want to go to school, but I don't think there are people who don't want to understand.
We are told in school that we need to have good grades to go to college to have a high paying job (maybe as a scientist) to have a family, a house, and a nice car. So accumulating lots of money is the only purpose of education? Not to think critically, try to understand why we are here, and see as well as understand the problems our planet is facing?
Wow this is what i left my interview with a major teacher training program when i realized that all the interveiwees were young white people to train to teach in the urban classroom. they have degrees and they dont have felony charges in their past. yet the uncles, cousins, fathers and family community folk dont qualify to go thru the teacher trainings and get the salaries while doing this. wow.....that talk was way tooo short...but a serious point...why cant it be those folk instead of people that come to watch them and learn from them how to teach why cant these folk be the ones that are taught to teach...wow...???
WOW.. im a hairdresser. he speaks the truth! can i get a AMEN!? amen... im for it. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
#Hairdresser #teach
AWESOME TALK! However, creating "magic" is not merely a trait to be taught... it has a lot to do with PERSONALITY traits that not everyone has. We all can learn to play basketball (in this case, to teach effectively) but everyone can be Michael Jordan...
I think they can all improve their teaching but not everyone will be as good at it.